Starting with ONTAP 9.0, SnapMirror policy can be specified either to transfer the Snapshot copy from the primary or to create the Snapshot copy directly on the destination volume (of SnapVault, Unified Replication relationships)

This recipe provides the following steps to create Snapshot on Secondary volume either for archival purposes or for establishing a different Snapshot cadence (while not impacting the primary)

1. Create a cron job to define the schedule when you want to create Snapshot copies